Monday, 17 August 2015

A Growing Collection

Progress has slowed a little on the Batlog as we've been out and about enjoying being not at work. However, I've still managed to get a few models done.

And so, I present my Poison Ivy gang...

I've kept thing pretty simple with these models, just using a very limited palette with washes and dry brushing.

The casting of the plants is a bit rough and ready, and I haven't spent as much time as I should cleaning them up, however, as plants, a bit of unevenness isn't too much of a problem.

Ivy herself caused me a few headaches as I was going to keep her legs bare, but I couldn't seem to stop her legs from looking grubby and so I changed tack and went for a look similar to the 1990's animated series.

Additionally, her right eye was a bit off and so I had to keep going back to it and I'm still not convinced her face is right. I also want to add some foliage to the base. On the plus side though, this particular model is unlikely to see a lot of table time, simply because the Arkham version I've had for a year is so much more scary, and makes better use of the plants.

I'm glad to have got these done though, and I'm happy enough with them. I suspect I may need to buy a Classic Harley Quinn to allow me to properly do a do a 'Gotham Girls' crew.

In other news, I've burned a couple of my 6MMRPC jokers recently. Firstly, I've begun to expand my Dropzone Commander army by buying a command unit for my Resistance army. I want the standard M3 Alexander tank, but my FLGS didn't have any in stock so instead I went for this:

It's actually a special character model, but it's technically the same tank as I wanted, but pimped up a bit. In game I'll use it as a standard Alexander, but for a few pence more, I got the command cards to allow me to use the special character should I want to at any point.

The second joker I burned was on these:

They're actually for my daughter. North Star Miniatures have these listed as 'Young Fire Elementalists', but with a different paint job, and a switch from fire to ice, they seem to be a pretty good, totally accidental, representation of these two:

24 comments:

Great work on both the Poison Ivy gang and your not Frozen sisters :-) I actually prefer this version of Ivy and think you've done a top job capturing the look and feel of her animated series counterpart.

I think you did a great job on the poison Ivy gang.The limited palette really binds them together as a team. The elementalist miniatures look like a lot of fun to paint. No doubt your daughter will be super-pleased receiving these, painted as characters she probably likes.

I seriously may have to stop reading your blog mate. You make me want to spend all kinds of money...DZC, Batman miniatures...northstar Frozen wanna be's for my sister to get her into gaming.....darn it sir!

Thanks. Currently, there are no rules for the Marvel minis, but they are in scale with the Batman stuff. There have been rumours of a more 'super' set of rules at some point, but nothing in the foreseeable.

However, some folk have come up with their own stats for Marvel characters, or you could use 'counts as' with some (Nightwing as Daredevil), or use a different set of rules like Power Legions or Supersystem.

Awesome, thank you. I do really like them, and honestly I'd probably go Watchmen anyway, but the Marvel stuff is really nice looking, it would be hard to resist! Is base size a big thing in the game? Or could they be in slightly larger bases?

I think your paint work on Ivy looks great. She is on my list too, I admit quite low due to the lack of a plant or henchman booster pack. I don't know if my hobby skills are up to the task of making my own.